Kamala Harris And Donald Trump held dueling rallies within miles of each other in swing state Wisconsin’s largest city, Milwaukeeon Friday evening. Milwaukee is home to the most Democratic votes in Wisconsin, but the conservative Republican suburbs are a crucial area for Trump as he tries to win back the state he narrowly won in 2016 but lost in 2020.

Rather Trump kept attacking Liz Cheney at a rally in Warren, Michigan, where he also lamented the state of his hair. “It doesn’t look so good today… not a good hair day for me, ay ay ay.” After his campaign rhetoric earlier from hateful to violent — when he suggested Cheney should be shot at “nine barrels” with the guns “pointed at her face” — the Arizona attorney general’s office, where Trump made the comment, opened a “death threat investigation”.

In Pennsylvaniaa neck-and-neck race is hurtling towards the finish line of the 2024 elections, with no clear frontrunner. So will the victor of Pennsylvania and its 19 electoral votes, the most of any battleground state probably win the electoral college and determine the country’s trajectory for the next four years.

Here’s what else happened on Friday:

Kamala Harris election news and updates

• Harris told her crowd at the Wisconsin State Fair Park Exposition Center that was with four days to go there is still work to be done, but “we like hard work”. Minutes in advance, during a raw warm-uprapper Cardi B called Trump “Donnie Dunk” and told the crowd: “Trump says he’s going to protect women whether they like it or not. Well, if his definition of protection is not freedom of choice, if his definition of protection leaves our daughters with fewer rights than our mothers, then I don’t want it! I don’t want it! I don’t want it!”

• Earlier, Harris said Trump’s violent rhetoric about Cheney “must be disqualifying” as to his suitability for the presidency. “Representative Cheney is a true patriot who has shown extraordinary courage in putting his country before party.” For her part, Cheney warned the public against dictatorship and a presidential candidate who “wants to be a tyrant”.

• The last of the Republicans offensive and misogynistic comments have boosted Democratic hopes of inviting women on Election Day in a contest that will see the women’s rights have been a central theme for the Harris campaign.

Donald Trump election news and updates

• Be with Milwaukee rally on Friday, Trump called Harris a “person with a low IQ” and promised to save the economy “from total destruction” in an hour-and-a-half, meandering speech that discussed the economy and foreign policy but also included threats to curb press freedom and a long-term discussion about his own rhetorical style. “I will stop the criminal invasion of this country,” Trump said, promising to usher in a new “golden age.” “Can you imagine if Kamala won? You would descend into a depression like in 1929.”

• Trump’s supporters are laying the groundwork for rejecting the election results if he loses, according to warnings from both Democrats and anti-Maga Republicans. In addition to unfounded and/or failed lawsuits, suspicions have also been raised about bias polls from groups with Republican ties in battleground states which mainly show Trump ahead – the idea being that if Trump loses, the polls can be cited as “proof” that he has been cheated out of victory.

• The New York author and journalist Michael Wolff has released audio tapes that seem to describe how Trump had a close social relationship with the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that he denied for a long time. Wolff says the recordings were made during a 2017 conversation with Epstein about writing his biography. Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges two years later. Trump’s campaign said the claims, made on Wolff’s podcast Fire and Fury, amounted to “outlandish false slander.”

Elsewhere on the campaign trail

• A federal judge has rejected an attempt by Elon Musk’s America Pac accusations of organizing an illegal lottery heard in federal court, rather than in the courts of Pennsylvania, where Musk is running the lottery to help Trump get re-elected. The matter is over remanded to Pennsylvania state court for a further hearing on Monday.

• Racism and misogyny; a death threat by firing squad for a former congressman; the Republican candidate for president dressed as a sanitation worker in the cab of a garbage truck. Donald Trump’s last full week on the campaign trail was as unedifying as it was bizarre – Richard Luscombe sums it up.

• A valuable Republican voting bloc in Arizona sees one shift of its members to Harris in numbers that Democrats think could make a difference for them in an election in which Trump has a slight lead according to the latest opinion polls. That bloc is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – the Mormons.

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